Red Dawn - Revisiting The 1984 Filming Locations - WOLVERINES !
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Colorado wait a second no I'm not
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despite what this mural says I'm
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actually in Las Vegas New Mexico not the
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Vegas you're thinking of and right here
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we the filming locations from the 1984
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classic Red
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Dawn hard to believe it's been 29 years
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since the movie was filmed in this small
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town but what do the spots look like
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today Wolverines
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join me shall you
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school is in session so I don't really
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want to get too close but right over
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there is where the parachuters came down
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and started the attack this scoreboard
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here this white one is actually seen in
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the movie there's a new scoreboard but
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the back side of that scoreboard is
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still there all the parachuters would
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have been coming down I would say they
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would way of
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course behind the school looks a lot
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different the teacher would have walked
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right out of this door and check out
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these windows patched
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overell this is where the statue was of
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course it was just a prop you can see
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that tree kind of in the background when
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they first showed the statue at the
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beginning unfortunately just a prop it
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doesn't really exist
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you can see all this in the background
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of course being chased the whole time
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they would have circled around the
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monument right here in the middle of the
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road and drove off straight down that
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way
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this empty lot you see behind me in the
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movie was a fantastic fake facade that a
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lot of scenes were shot at they actually
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blew it up in the movie that's why it's
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still empty you can see where they'
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resurfaced the road right here in the
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middle was actually a median a concrete
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median which is now
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gone Patrick s's driving the truck and
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turns and drives down that way you can
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see a lot of the shot going down that
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Main Road including one of the high
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school students fathers being captured
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and they're driving down and he's
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chasing the truck right down that
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road the father would be chasing the
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truck full of the children you can see
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of course all this stuff in the
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side the father would have been captured
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right over there
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back this has nothing to do with Red
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Dawn when the guys would have walked
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back into town they would have walked
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the same route I'm
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walking that's the May's car
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they got Daryl's Dad's car the way you
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can tell is right behind me you can see
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that old movie theater
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sign right
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there
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L how you
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doing there was sand bags all across
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there and there was a plank of wood
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really it was just covering that sign
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that says Bank of Las Vegas movie Magic
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I also like to look out for weird little
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things that are still here 29 years
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later like this this little metal Gizmo
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was seen in the movie when they walked
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right towards that building still there
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look at that still
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there was he scared of us
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right here is where they were having the
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book
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know here's the Murphy drug sign right
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behind here which is now a bank was
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Murphy's Coca-Cola and drugs 6 to
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brushes
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please oh oh dead right behind me is the
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bank I wanted to get some shots inside
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the bank where there was actually a shot
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in the movie where they go into the
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General Store the soda fountain and they
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talk to the girl are you crazy you got
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to get out of here the bank security
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guard did not like me snooping around
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with my camera for obious reasons I
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tried explaining to him what I was doing
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he seemed like he was cool with it but
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he would not let me
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inside you don't understand they know
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who all of you are they're looking for
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you there's some old Red Dawn remnants
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just think there was a huge building
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here no more right over here also is
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where the girl planted the bomb inside
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the shop she got hit on by the guy as
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she came out of the store she walked
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across the road and of course the bomb
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blew up um I'll be right back okay you
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you bring girlfriend yeah okay I'll be
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right here
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bye
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explosion after the bomb went off a guy
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laid right here a casualty of war the
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only way you can tell this is the actual
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curb is if you look straight up you can
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see that building Still
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Remains even the small window right
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there is the
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same remember the McDonald's from the
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back of the video box well it's still
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there McDonald's has been renovated but
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the sign looks exactly the
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same America is a wh house where the
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revolutionary ideals of your forefathers
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are corrupted
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and by
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of this is the drive-in theater where
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they were held captive and of course
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there was a big chain leak fence here
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the boys would have stood here the
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father over
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there and all the propaganda was up on
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that screen screen still here
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world
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now now you will for
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the boys avenge me
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boys avenge
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me avenge
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me here's where a lot of action at the
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end of the movie happened this kind of
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looks familiar doesn't it
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he got
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shot come on let's go let's go
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together feel
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right here past the double train tracks
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is where the double shooting was double
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train tracks double shooting of course
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ending with Patrick szy being shot on
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the ground right there and the other guy
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shot right
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there double shooting double train
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tracks
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the dramatic ending where Patrick sey is
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carrying Charlie Sheen was right over
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there at that park right over
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come you can rest
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now as he carried him this way he would
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have fallen right in front of the
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bench oh man it's okay man it's okay's
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hang on man pretty crazy to think that
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that bench was right here and that
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emotional scene happened right on the
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ground they rolled over got up crawled
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up got up on top of the bench Patrick
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sesy crying Charlie Sheen laying there
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next to him
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dying right
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here
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wow come on man daddy be here
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sir come on
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looking from the other angle the bench
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would have been right down there it
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looks pretty much the same as it did in
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the movie The only difference is there
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was a tree right here that has been
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removed but that tree that tree of
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course the vestibule and that wooden
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pole are still there so TI
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now what do you think not bad for a
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bunch of kids
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huh your mama would be real
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proud now I can't find my
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sunglasses